It is interesting to notice how in man, and the most anthropo-morphous animals, where the erect position would subject these to the frequent accident of hydrocele or hernia, nature causes the serous spermatic tube to close.
The abdomino-scrotal serous lining remains continuous at the internal ring, and a congenital hydrocele is formed.
Footnote: When a hydrocele is interposed between the eye and a strong light, the testis appears as an opaque body at the back of the tunica vaginalis.
It may be distinguished from the common form of hydrocele of the isolated tunica vaginalis by the fact, that pressure made on the scrotum will cause the fluid to pass freely into the general cavity of the peritonaeum.
Footnote 1: The serous spermatic tube remains open in all quadrupeds; but their natural prone position renders them secure againsthydrocele or hernial protrusion.
But in hydrocele of the separate tunica vaginalis, such impulse is not perceived.
The serous spermatic canal closes imperfectly, so as to become sacculated, and thus a hydrocele of the cord is formed.
Collect ascitic, pleuritic, or hydrocele fluid in sterile flasks and allow to stand in the ice-chest for twelve hours to sediment.
Hydrocele may be congenital or arise in the middle-aged without apparent cause, but it is usually associated with chronic orchitis or with tertiary syphilitic enlargements.
The hydrocele appears as a rounded, fluctuating translucent swelling in the scrotum, and when greatly distended causes a dragging pain.
Various substances may be injected; or the hydrocele is incised, the tunica partly removed and the cavity drained.
The peritoneum of hydrocele and hernial sacs and of the omentum readily lends itself to transplantation.
Four others I obtained alive from a hydrocele of the spermatic cord, having caught them in the eye of a peculiar trochar I use for tapping.
Beddoes may be added, that the hydrocele generally succeeds an injury, and consequent inflammation of the bag, which contains it.
This condition is to be diagnosed from traumatic cephal-hydrocele (p.
The cystic lymphangioma, hygroma, or hydrocele of the neck (Fig.
Some of the diagnostic marks of hydrocele are thereby lost; there is no translucency of the swelling, and fluctuation is either indistinct, or altogether imperceptible.
If reaccumulation take place, the treatment is to be conducted on the same principles as in hydrocele of the vaginal coat.
Hydrocele of the tunica vaginalis is exceedingly common, particularly amongst labouring people, and occurs apparently with equal frequency at all ages.
A hernia was found containing omentum and a fold of bowel; a hydrocele of the chord lay alongside of it.
A physician opposed operative measures, having been convinced that his former complaint was a hydrocele of the chord.
Hydrocele is occasionally complicated by the presence of hernia, when a careful examination must be instituted in order to understand the exact share each disease has in the production of the swelling.
But hydrocele of the chord and hernia may coexist, as in the following instance:—A gentleman had swelling in the course of the spermatic chord for many years, while in a warm climate.
Encysted hydrocele of the chord occurs in children more frequently than in adults.
I was cured in a short time, after having the Hydrocele for eighteen years.
The ganglion, the house-maid's knee, as also the hydrocele of the tunica vaginalis, are regarded as hygromata.
The most constant secondary manifestation is swelling of the testicle proper, or true orchitis; less frequently there is epididymitis, and with it acute hydrocele and oedema of the scrotum.
The hydrocele of the neck and elsewhere in the subcutaneous or intermuscular connective tissue is now removed from the hygromata to the tumors which arise from lymph-vessels.
Mursinna describes a hydrocele which measured 27 inches in its longest and 17 in its transverse axis.
Hydrocele is a condition in which there is an abnormal quantity of fluid in the tunica vaginalis.
There was a similar case of priapism which lasted for three weeks, and was associated with hydrocele in a man of forty-eight.
I want to cure every man suffering with Varicocele, Stricture, Contagious Blood Poison, Nervous Debility, Hydroceleor a disease peculiar to men.
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